Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully Illustrated by Original Drawings, Colored from NatureParry & McMillan, 1860 - 164 pagini |
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Pagina 26
... cultivation of that soil would be but toil and time wasted . So , then , plants and fruits will tell us what the soil contains as truly as the most skilful chemists . We sometimes wonder why a land which once bore in profusion certain ...
... cultivation of that soil would be but toil and time wasted . So , then , plants and fruits will tell us what the soil contains as truly as the most skilful chemists . We sometimes wonder why a land which once bore in profusion certain ...
Pagina 30
... cultivation is unquestionably different from and inferior to that of former days , there are changes not attributable to cultivation alone . We have , in our wanderings over the hills of Palestine , gathered the cotton , the wheat , and ...
... cultivation is unquestionably different from and inferior to that of former days , there are changes not attributable to cultivation alone . We have , in our wanderings over the hills of Palestine , gathered the cotton , the wheat , and ...
Pagina 33
... cultivation upon terraces ; and these galleries of gardens , encircling the hills and mountains , must have presented a variety which could never be attained upon the level fields . Most of the hill - sides were once used as gardens ...
... cultivation upon terraces ; and these galleries of gardens , encircling the hills and mountains , must have presented a variety which could never be attained upon the level fields . Most of the hill - sides were once used as gardens ...
Pagina 34
... Cultivated gardens of flowers and fruits and foliage upon the hills , rising like islets of beautiful light from the verdure of the forests and fields . below , caught the first beams of the sun in the morning , and reflected his clear ...
... Cultivated gardens of flowers and fruits and foliage upon the hills , rising like islets of beautiful light from the verdure of the forests and fields . below , caught the first beams of the sun in the morning , and reflected his clear ...
Pagina 47
... cultivated as high up as 70 ° north latitude . In Syria the cultivation of barley has given rise to many apparent contradictions among travellers , as well as variation in their notices of the times of sowing and gathering . Some have ...
... cultivated as high up as 70 ° north latitude . In Syria the cultivation of barley has given rise to many apparent contradictions among travellers , as well as variation in their notices of the times of sowing and gathering . Some have ...
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Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1860 |
Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1861 |
Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1860 |
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allusion aloë aloes ancient Anethum anise appears Arabs barley bay-tree bears beauty bitter blossoms botanical bramble brier bulrush calamus called cane cockle color common coriander cultivation cummin delicate East eaten Egypt Egyptian feet flax floating flourished fragrance gardens garlic gathered gourd grain grapes green grew grows growth Hasselquist Hebrew hemlock Hence Herodotus Holy Land hyssop inches Isaiah Israelites Jericho Jerusalem Jews Judea kind Lake of Tiberias leaves Lebanon LILIACEÆ linen Linn little plant mentioned Mount Tabor myrrh native noticed occurs onion onithogalum Palestine Paliurus pannag paper-reed papyrus passage perfume petals places plains pleasant Pliny pollen pomegranate probably prophet reed referred root Rosa Centifolia rose Saviour Scripture seed seems Sheep's Fescue shrub soil Solomon Song of Solomon speaks specimen spikenard spoken stem supposed sweet Syria thistle thorns Tiberias traveller trees UMBELLIFERÆ varieties vine vineyards wheat whence wild wine word translated yellow
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Pagina 57 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Pagina 156 - The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Pagina 73 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Pagina 97 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.' For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Pagina 45 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Pagina 93 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage : for they knew them not.
Pagina 109 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Pagina 73 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Pagina 96 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Pagina 58 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.